Posted on 06/20/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Record temperatures. Roads cracking and buckling. Planes that can't take off. Power knocked out. Wildfires raging. These are just some of the trying conditions currently roiling America's West Coast, which is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.
Nervous about how these disruptions will negatively impact the economy and even cost human life? You should be. And there's more to come.
Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.
Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.
A delayed flight out of Phoenix will soon be the least of our worries.
If you're stranded in Phoenix right now, or worried about an elderly acquaintance in California, or are without power in the Bay Area, or nervous about a wildfire taking your home, you can thank the long list of politicians who do the bidding of polluting corporations instead of their constituents and protect profit over the environment.
You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement. And you can show your displeasure by refusing to support candidates who don't take climate change seriously, and don't do whatever they can to keep the world inhabitable.
Anything less is global suicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
And people in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait where normally it gets to 145degF smirk.
Wow, that’s never happened before.............Imagine.......It’s hot in Phoenix and Las Vegas...............
Oh noeeee!! We’re ALL gonna die!
You know, Jill, we never, ever had high temperatures until Trump tore up the Paris Accord agreement.
What a maroon.
Exactly, like this does not happen every year in the Southwest. CNN sucks.
PS: At home I’m told it’s cloudy and rainy and chilly (Pacific NW) what does CNN want Trump to do about that?
It’s the middle of June. Sorta does that here every year, just right about the same time.
Until the monsoons hit in July.
Paging Algore... paging Algore...
I was stationed in 29 Palms California in 1973 this time of year.
It’s in the high desert north of Palm Springs.
It was HOT....................
It seems to happen often in the desert!
Only the idiots at the Fake News Network could blame Donald Trump for it being hot in Phoenix.
Next up. Blame Trump for the Hurricanes in the Gulf.
CNN...enemy of the U.S......
It’s called “weather.” It sometimes gets.. hot. Just like some other times when it gets.. cold.
But.. the NARRATIVE!!!!
Weather changes are Trump’s fault. Once again the MediaLiesMatter
Some goofy lady in NYC ranting about weather in America’s Southwest region?
Guess what. It can get very hot here, from time to time.
I heard from some credible sources that areas in Texas went 100 days with 100+ temps.
That is why I stay close to the shore of the Pacific Ocean.
Jill Filipovic (born c. 1983) is a New York attorney, journalist and a liberal / progressive feminist author. So SHE MUST really know Everything! LOL!
It is?
May temps: (the red line is the measured temperature; the blue lines are the average highs and lows)
June temps so far: (the red line is the measured temperature; the blue lines are the average highs and lows)
Admittedly, I'm not a reporter, but it looks to my eyes like it's mostly tracking right within the averages.
I burned a hole in a piston of my brand new motorcycle in 1973 there it was so hot..........
145 f nope dosent get that hot there nice try
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.